Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.

Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent.

The project was a blow to Yuri Andropov's so-called " peace offensive ".

Although Whorf's approach to understanding the Maya script is now known to have been misguided, his central claim that the script was phonetic and should be deciphered as such was vindicated by Yuri Knorozov's syllabic decipherment of Mayan writing in the 1950s.

In December 1995, at the Fourth WWW Conference in Boston, he was the first recipient of what would later become the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.

This reaction was reportedly first studied in 1978 by the team at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions ( FLNR ) under the leadership of Yuri Oganessian.

The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

In March 2001 Russian Independent Television NTV interviewed a previously unknown grandson living in Novokuznetsk, Yuri Davydov, who stated that his father had told him of his lineage, but, was told to keep quiet because of the campaign against Stalin's cult of personality.

" Yuri Modin, one of the KGB controllers of the Cambridge Five, agreed: " Contrary to received opinion, it was neither Guy Burgess nor one of our own agents who lured Philby into the toils of the Soviet espionage apparatus.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

However, Leavitt was using the term to describe what we would now call developmental biology ; it was not until Russian Entomologist Yuri Filipchenko used the terms " macroevolution " and " microevolution " in 1927 in his German language work, " Variabilität und Variation ", that it attained its modern usage.

He was appointed following lobbying made by the Soviets, most notable among them was Yuri Andropov, the KGB Chairman.

Within three years of the deaths of Soviet Leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985.

In 1998, at the Seventh WWW Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Nelson was awarded the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.

27-year-old Yuri Gagarin was the only crew member of Vostok 1.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968 ) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk ( renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death ), ( now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia ), on 9 March 1934.

In 1960, after much searching and a selection process, Yuri Gagarin was chosen with 19 other pilots for the Soviet space program.

* 1212 – 1216 Yuri II, third son of Vsevolod the Big Nest

* Yuri Sakazaki ( ユリ ・ サカザキ )-featured as an NPC in the first and third game.

* Yuri Zhukov ( journalist ) ( 1908 – 1991 ), journalist, editor and observer of the newspaper ' Pravda ', third chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee

After his third spaceflight Voss spent two years training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

He provided a key pass for Chelsea's third goal of the game, skilfully working past a Villa defender and playing a clever ball with the outside of his right foot to Yuri Zhirkov whose cross fell to Florent Malouda who scored.

From the very beginning the IPA and its President Yuri Savenko had to take on human rights functions in addition to educational ones: first, it was necessary to uncover the ideological basis on which the Soviet psychiatry carried out its punitive activities ; second, it was necessary to develop legal norms which would forever prevent such abuses ; third, it was necessary to show that it is not society that needs to be protected from the mentally ill, but the ill need to be protected from society as a whole, not only from the authorities ; fourth, it was necessary to overcome rigidity and inhumane nature of modern domestic psychiatry detached from its old roots and, at the same time, artificially isolated from Western humanistic trends.

Secret police chiefs from Lavrenty Beria to Yuri Andropov used the same office on the third floor, which looked down on the statue of Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky.

A third attempt is successful when a desperate Rusafa seeks his help when Yuri is weakened and in danger of dying after a shipwreck which also causes Yuri to have a miscarriage.

She finished the Grand Prix an astonishing 35 points ahead of the second place finisher Yuri Kovshov, and 82 points ahead of the third place winner Viktor Ugriumov.

Other notable results included a tie for 3rd at the 1962 Moscow Championship ( behind Yuri Averbakh and Evgeny Vasiukov ) and finishing third at Mariánské Lázně 1965 ( behind Paul Keres and Vlastimil Hort ).

) According to Mr. Yuri Bakhvalov, First Deputy Director General of the Khrunichev Space Centre, when the automatic command to switch off the second stage engine did not take effect, the second stage continued to operate until it ran out of fuel and as a consequence the planned separation of the third ( Breeze-KM ) stage of the rocket which carried the CryoSat satellite did not take place, and would thus have remained attached to the second stage.

The first decay of atoms of ununoctium was observed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) by Yuri Oganessian and his group in Dubna, Russia, in 2002 .< ref name =" pp2002 "> On October 9, 2006, researchers from JINR and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of California, USA, working at the JINR in Dubna, announced that they had indirectly detected a total of three ( possibly four ) nuclei of ununoctium-294 ( one or two in 2002 and two more in 2005 ) produced via collisions of californium-249 atoms and calcium-48 ions:

In the Soviet years, Rybinsk continued its impressive renaming record, for it changed its name four times: to Shcherbakov ( after Aleksandr Shcherbakov ) in 1946, back to Rybinsk in 1957, to Andropov ( after Yuri Andropov ) in 1984, and back to Rybinsk in 1989.

The last four Soviet leaders ( Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev ) were all senior Secretaries before becoming General Secretaries.

Himmler personally requested Kaminski's assistance, and the latter obliged by gathering a task force of 1, 700 unmarried men and sending them ( some sources mentioned that they had four T-34 tanks, one SU-76 and few artillery pieces ) to Warsaw as a mixed regiment under field command of Kaminski's brigade chief-of-staff, SS-Sturmbannführer Yuri Frolov.

He has four brothers, Stefano, Jorge, Geza and Yuri.

On September 11, 2000, two members of the STS-106 Space Shuttle crew completed final connections between Zvezda and Zarya ; during a 6 hour, 14 minute EVA, astronaut Ed Lu and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko connected nine cables between Zvezda and Zarya, including four power cables, four video and data cables and a fiber-optic telemetry cable.

Yuri is the daughter of Takuma Sakazaki and Ronnet Sakazaki and the younger sister of Ryo Sakazaki, who is four years her senior.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film three out of four stars and commented, " I do like the way director Carl Franklin and writers Yuri Zeltser and Cary Bickley.

Included are remixes of the songs from the four featured bands by Grendel, Tactical Sekt, Yuri, DJ Ram, Code 64, Rotersand, Razed in Black, Agonoize, and Autoaggression.

Reliable data is available about four: Aleksander, Yuri, Konstantin, and Fedir, who helped Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, to defeat the Tatars in the Battle of Blue Waters in 1363.

They succeed and then the four regroup to hunt down Yuri.

: There are four independent rice wine breweries in Yurihonjō: Akita Homare, Yuri Masamune, Tenju, and Dewanofuji.

On 29 November 2000 the then Far East Military District commander, General Colonel Yuri Yakubov, was reported in Vremya Novostei as saying that only ' four fully-staffed operational regiments and several operational divisions ' in the district were combat ready.

Yuri Rassamakin suggests that it should be considered an areal term, with at least four distinct cultural elements.